Clash Of Generations At Oz Open

It’s a type of player: barn-door build, armed with a sledgehammer serve. Next generation. There are three such in the top-15 of the ATP rankings – Alexander Zverev, ranked No.4, Karen Khachanov, No. 11, and Stefanos Tsitsipas, No.15.

An interesting thread has emerged from exchanges between the top-three — Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer — and these power merchants. They have eight wins from 15 meetings against Djokovic and Federer, but none from a dozen clashes with the Spaniard. For the record, only five of those matches against Nadal were played on clay.

When the second seed takes on Tsitsipas in the first of the Australian Open men’s singles semifinals at the Rod Laver Arena, the 20-year-old will have to contend with a determined Nadal and an imposing head-to-head record.

Typically, Nadal wondered aloud about records, as if statistics were some amateur tarot card readings. “I don’t know if what happened in the past is going to have a great impact on what can happen, no?” he questioned. “When you face these young players, they are in permanent improvement. He’s with confidence. He won a lot of good matches. Stefanos is one of the best players of the world. To have the chance to be in that final, I need to play my best, and that’s what I am looking to do.”

American Frances Tiafoe, another of the game’s young stars, who fell to Nadal in the last eight, endorsed Federer’s call on the Melbourne Park courts. “Really slow,” he said and with that observation giving Nadal, the sultan of the slower surfaces, the advantage.

“I knew what he was going to bring to the table,” Tiafoe said of Nadal after their quarterfinal clash “He was going to bring crazy intensity, the ball was going to be jumping, if he got hold of a forehand, it was going to be barbecued chicken. But point in, point out, I’ve never seen someone so locked in.”

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